Martha Ginny

“Writing's like running downhill; can't stop if you want to.”
― Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety

“I ask no more than to live a hundred years longer, that I may have more time to dwell the longer on your memory.”
― Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

“but that was the thing about light, I said, you don't need a lot of it. The other way round, a sliver of dark in a sunny garden, you'd never spot it, the light's stronger and quicker and the eye goes looking for it. If you think of the world like that, it doesn't seem as bad a place.”
― Emma Stonex, The Lamplighters

“Perhaps we were friends first and lovers second. But then perhaps this is what lovers are.”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name